Aet. 48, to an art and literary critic who advised George Moore about Catholic and convent life for his duology Evelyn Innes (1898) and Sister Teresa (1901). Both novels were about the character Evelyn Innes.
References in this letter to the first and second (convent) “parts” are to the books. The third revised edition of Evelyn Innes and first edition of Sister Teresa came out in July 1901.
George probably read a popular French translation of Tolstoy’s masterpiece La Guerre et la Paix in four volumes. Constance Garnett’s rarer first English translation of War and Peace in six volumes appeared in 1899.
Rouen was almost 40 miles from Monet’s home in Giverny. George was avoiding crowds in Paris for the Exposition Universelle, including a major loan exhibition of pictures by Ingres .
Arthur Symons’ The Symbolist Movement in Literature was published early in 1899. Evelyn Innes (1898) was dedicated to Symons and W. B. Yeats.
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